Photoshop by Adobe. The parody that’s making you think twice about the beauty industry.

Have you ever wondered how celebs always look so wonderful? Wondered what their secret is? Wondered why they never have sagging skin, breasts, wrinkles, blemishes, are always involved with rock star boyfriends and girlfriends?

Then this might be the product for you. Simply by exporting one unit of pixel intensifying fauxtanical hydro-jargon microbead extract a day onto your soul and you might end up seeing results that you could only have dreamt of. Until now….

Says film maker Jesse Rosten who came up with the spoof:

I was watching TV one sleepless night and stumbled upon an infomercial for some beauty product. The commercial showed before and after portraits, that to my eye, looked like the same photo just photoshopped. I laughed to myself. Then I made this video.

Isn’t it time you began living the great American illusion too?

Sold at all participating media agencies that insist in perpetuating distortions on the female form….

About

I think the idea to start “Scallywag and Vagabond.” (SCV) originates from my myriad background and the many years I have spent in preferred cafes and brasseries extolling the virtues and subtle intricacies of ‘being’ as the Beaujolais ran, the cigarette wafted and the gentleman to my side pontificated while spraying himself with a deftly tied cravat and sun crested idolatry.’

I grew up in Australia where as a young man one was obliged to become a hero of sorts. A master swimmer, fighter of causes, ideals and disheveled denizen of aesthetics, and more often a carefree ‘larrikin’ who would occasionally poke his sun bronzed nose at authority and convention Read More